Necktie retainer



July 2, 1929. R, J, LEWERS 1.719.434-

NECKTIE RETAINER Filed Feb. 25, 1923 INVENTOR Patented July 2, 1929.

UNITED; ST'ATESf ROBERT J. LEWERS, 0F YORK, N. Y.

NECKTIE RETAINER.

Application filed February 23, 1928. Serial No. 256,225, i

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in View are: To provide a retainer for neck ties upon which the tie can be hand-formed andrenewed when desired; to provide simple and efficient means for holding the retainer and tie mounted thereon in service; to accelerate the operation of changing ties on the retainer; and to simplify and cheapen the construction.

Drawings.

Figure 1 is a top edge View of a retainer constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention.

Figure 2 is a front View of a retainer constructed and arranged in accordance with the preferred form of the invention.

Figure 3 is a vertical section thereof, the section being taken 011 the line 33 in Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a front view of a modified form of the invention.

Figure 5 is a vertical section of the same, the section. being taken on the line 5-5 in Figure 4.

Figure 6 is a front view of a modified form of the invention showing in conjunction therewith by dotted lines, a neck tie of the usually known four-in-hand type mounted on the retainer.

Figure 7 is a side edge View thereof.

Description.

As seen in the drawings the invention provides primarily a semi-rigid supportin structure for a flexible member upon whic i the neck tie is directly supported. The supporting structure referred to preferably conin a starched or stiffened shield 12 which has a pendent section 13 narrowed to be concealed behind the head ofthe tie and wherein is formed a buttonhole 14 to engage in service the collar button usually worn.

At the upper edge of the shield 12 an overturned receiving member 15 is provided. The receiving member 15 is integral with the body of the shield 12 and is connected therewith in somewhat of a resilient manner. The resilient quality is due in part to the quality of the material and in part to the bowed set of the shield and member 15 connected therethe numeral 16. The severance thus formed of the member 15 from the shield 12 provides for using the median section 17 ofthe member 15 as a bar on whichmay be supported thehead of the tie if so desired.

p The immediate supporting means for the tie may be the bar 17 above described or a sectionof rounded: elastic 18. I When using the elastic 18 it is extended through perforations 19 formed in the member 15 and'to be passed between the shield 12 and the back of the member 15 to be laced around a pendent sec" tion. 20 of the receiving member 15 and through perforations 21 therein for anchor mg the ends of the elastic18. When the elastic 18 is installed as indicated and described,

the tie is passed aroundthe exposed section between the perforations 19 and the tie thereafter is formed by hand in the usual manner, and as indicated by dotted lines in Figure 6 of the drawings.

An auxiliary or additional perforation is made in the receiving member 15 whereby independent ties may be formed on short sections of elastic, the ends whereof are permanently attached to portions of snap fasteners such as indicated by the numerals 22 in Figure 2 of the drawings. The part of the snap fasteners indicated by the numerals 22 are what-are known as the female portions there of. In some cases I use a snap portion 22, the center of which is perforated. When using this, the perforations in the snap portion take the place of the perforations 21 in the pendent portion 20 of the member 15.

In Figures 4 and 5 of the drawings a modified form of the invention is shown, the modification consisting in supporting centrally the member 15 to form tabs 23. Through perforations 241 therein. may be passed the ends of the elastic 18 or substitute therefor. In this modified form also perforations 25 are provided in the shield 12 as substitutes for the perforations 21 in the pendent portion of thepreferred form. The operation of placing theelastic 18 is much the same as above described.

In Figures 6 and 7 a further modification is shown, the modification consisting in forming eyelets 26 which are provided with contracted extensions and a receiving perforation. The ends of the elastic 18 are knotted or provided with enlargements which will enter the enlarged portion of the eyelet 26 but will not pass through the contracted portion thereof, the contracted portions of the eyelets being turned'toward each other. The

elastic holds the end thereof Within the contracted portions.

The tie indicated by the dotted lines in Figures 6 and 7 may be threaded or mounted on the elastic 18 to be retainedthereon.

When placing the tie so equipped in service it is placed on the member 15 by inserting the enlarged ends of the elastic 18 in the eyelet's 26, the elastic thereafter holding the enlarged ends thereof in the contracted ends of the said eyelets.

' being'i'n services'o disposed as to extend undeli the apron of folding collars for the employment. in conjunction with which the inventi'on is most suited;

,Clalms 1'; A neckgtle retainer comprlsmg a resilform with the curvature of a collar for personal wear, said body portion having a buttonhole for engagement with a collar button; and an opening between said body and folded portion for the passage of a neck tie therethrough; and means extending across said opening for suspending a neck tie thereon in servlce.

2. A neck tie retainer comprising a resilient body, a portion whereof is folded upon itself in spaced relation, said body and folded portion being set in shape to conform with the curvature of a collar for personal wear, said body portion having a buttouhole for engagement with a collar button; and an opening between said body and folded portion for the passage of a neck tie therethrough; and means extending across said opening for suspending a neck tie thereon in service, said means being adapted to hold the engaged portion of the neck tie in close juxtaposition to the neckband of said collar.

ROBERT J. LEWERS. 

